AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 243, 21 December 1894, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

lijr Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

(Per Press Association.)

i'aRTH, December 20. The expedition which was sent to inflict punishment for the recent murders ar reeled several natives ; the rest fled and pursuit wue foend to be hopeless. The blacks hod been lighting amongst themselves and tiio.se who were killed. Hyunky, Thi# Day. The woman Cb rosier anil her three

daughters have been acquitted on the charge of infanticide. The Judge distharged the three elder prisoners holding there was no evidence to support *the charge. With regard to the younger daughter Jane the jury had to consider whether her confession that when her sister’s child was born she killed and buried it was true or whether it was an hallucination. On this question the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Received 10.40 a.m. Melbourne, December 20. Mr J. Munro, ex-Agent General was examined to-day in connection with the affairs of the Federal Bank now in liquidation. The Judge characterised the evidence as extraordinary; it practically meant that Munro had obtained money belonging to the depositors to such an amount that he could not say within X 50,000 how much it was. Witness declared he had never received a shilling in his own interest but had ruined himself by trying to do his best for the Bank.